Glenn Beck Pledges Funds Colorado Women's Shelter lost funds

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/1 ... ce=dlvr.it

A women's shelter in Colorado Springs lost federal funding recently after the executive director there refused to halt mandatory Bible studies for its patrons.


I had to use that pic! LOL

Interesting. I wonder if a women's shelter that required mandatory Koran classes would also lose its federal funding.

I wonder if a woman's shelter that required mandatory Wonder Woman comics would also lose it's funding.

I wonder if the government really gives a crap about women's shelters?

I wonder if a womans shelter that has mandatory bible study really cares about women.

archer wrote: I wonder if a womans shelter that has mandatory bible study really cares about women.

Why? Do you see some sort of contradiction?

Yeah...why make bible study mandatory? What happens to the women who are not Christian? Do they have to attend bible study in order to stay? Is that helping women...or just a certain few? To me it's a form of blackmail...attend bible study or leave.

I admit I don't have enough info...that's why I asked the question rather that stating an opinion on their practice.

archer wrote: Yeah...why make bible study mandatory? What happens to the women who are not Christian? Do they have to attend bible study in order to stay? Is that helping women...or just a certain few? To me it's a form of blackmail...attend bible study or leave.

I admit I don't have enough info...that's why I asked the question rather that stating an opinion on their practice.

Well even thou I wavier somewhere between atheist and agnostic I will attempt an answer. I am sure there are many more, but at the moment I see two likely pov's.

1. The Christians believe that by forcing women in the shelter to study the bible they will convert some and somehow bolster Christianity by expanding their numbers.

2. Some of the lectured will embrace it and have a better life.

(I think I referenced this once before, but Major Barbra by George Bernard Shaw addresses this pretty well, or at least provides food for thought.)

Is there a reason that women of the Christian faith should not have a shelter that is geared to helping them emerge stronger than they were before? Are they less deserving of the safety net simply because of their chosen faith? I thought the general government was supposed to be religiously indifferent, not religiously intolerant.